ALSN will offer 2 pre-conference workshops on Saturday morning
Registration:
Registration includes breakfast and coffee/tea. Click below for more information!
Workshop 1: Improving Nurse Well-Being: The Workforce Engagement for Compassionate Advocacy, Resilience, and Empowerment (WE CARE) ProgramThis workshop will review the basic structure and guiding principles of our program, developed by and for nurses to address the moral distress, burnout, and accumulated stressors exacerbated by the COVID-10 pandemic. Our certified Nurse Professional Development Specialists for Wellness will teach participants to use one element of our program, Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® and allow them to practice the skills associated with this brain-based method. Learner Objectives:
Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Rachel Z. Booth Endowed Chair in Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing in Birmingham, Alabama, joined the UAB faculty in 2008 after a 26-year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, retiring as Colonel. In the military, she held positions as staff nurse, nurse manager, clinical nurse specialist, LPN instructor, and CE Administrator. After earning her PhD, she was Nursing Research Director at Walter Reed Army Medical Center followed by Chief, Department of Nursing Science at the Academy of Health Sciences. At UAB she teaches/mentors students in the PhD and Executive DNP Programs. She conducts research on nursing’s contributions to patient safety and quality care outcomes. The recipient of over $12M in federal grants, she is currently working on projects evaluating the impact of the pandemic on the nursing workforce and on patient care, as well as interventions to assist in the post-pandemic psychological recovery of nurses. Dr. Patrician Co-Directs of the VA Quality Scholars program at the Birmingham VA site and mentors post-doctoral nurses, physicians, and pharmacists in quality improvement and improvement science activities. She has co-authored over 110 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Dr. Patrician earned a BSN from Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; MSN (Critical Care) from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; and PhD in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. |